yesterday i was telling a fren about nostr n he said something thatβs been on our minds for a while now.. VCβs n angels stepping into nostr n creating the holy grail of nostr social clients.. he had a bunch of concerns about that and simply told him that sure it could happen n sure they could make their own siloβd relays default on the clients n they can even block your access to other relays thus showing you a side of the network they moderate for you. There will always be a market for those that want their hands held, itβll be a different battle in this war weβre wagging where weβll free them from those clients by infiltrating them n opening their eyes to the protocol.
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If you build it, they will come. Getting them here is the hard part, if that takes a VC client then so be it. There will still be users that get their eyes opened and migrate away from that VC client.
Maybe leveraging on the open architecture and inter-operability will be more of a value add than closed garden relays.
i hope their team sees the value you see! I see it too, but i hope they do!
Over a long enough time frame value should move to the more open network thus aligning incentives. The same way walled Fiat currencies will continue to bleed against an open monetary network I imagine that would play out on social protocols as well
Agreeed! Long enough time frame is the keywords here!